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How Will We Read: In Public Libraries?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: C. M. Rubin, Google Books, Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, Public Libraries, How Will We Read?, E-Books, E-Readers, American Library Association, Library Budget Cuts, Digitizing Books, Molly Raphael, The Virtual Library, Digital Public Library, The Future of Books, Books News

Libraries across the United States need our help as they are being closed or having significant cuts made to their budgets.

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Guess Who Harry Potter Is Teaming Up With Now

Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Book News, Ereaders, Book Publishing, Harry Potter eBooks, Harry Potter, Pottermore, Ebooks, Google Books, Books News

Today, Google Books announced that they will be teaming up with JK Rowling’s highly anticipated website Pottermore this fall. By joining forces ...

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Judge Increasingly Annoyed By Google Book Case

AP | By LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Denny Chin, Google, Google Book Case, eBook Publishing, Book Publishing, Google Books, Ebooks, Books News

NEW YORK -- A judge warned lawyers for authors and publishers and Google Tuesday that he will decide whether snippets of books can be sold online with...

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Penelope Lively: 'eBooks For Bloodless Nerds'

Telegraph | Anita Singh | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Kindles, Naomi Alderman, Simon Morris, Disobedience, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger, Booker Prize, Google Books, Telegraph Ways With Words Festival, Ebooks, Books News

According to Penelope Lively, 78, the Booker Prize-winning author, e-books are for "bloodless nerds". She said that Kindles and other devices to which...

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'Classy' Google eBooks Reader Debuts

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 09.10.2011

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The iriver Story HD, the first ereader device featuring integration with Google eBooks, will be available in the United States exclusively at Target o...

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British Library, Google In Deal To Digitize Books

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Google, Digitizing Books, British Library, Google Digitizing Books, Google British Library, Kristian Jensen, Google Books, Ebooks, Books News

LONDON — A treatise on a stuffed hippopotamus, an 18th-century English primer for Danish sailors and a description of the first engine-driven su...

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The New Hottest Spot For An Author On A Book Tour

nytimes.com | KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Author Tour, Google, Google Speakers Program, Mountain View, Author Appearance, Book Tour, Digital Books, Malcolm Gladwell, Google Books, Ebooks, Books News

For authors and other creative professionals, an appearance at the Googleplex, the company's sprawling complex of office buildings, is good business -...

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Future Of Google Digital Library Remains Uncertain

philly.com | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Google, Book Publishing, Monopolies, Orphan Books, Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild, Google Books, Google Digital Library, Books News

It was a glittering dream: A vast worldwide digital library, tens of millions of books all in one easily accessible place . . . named Google....

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New York Review: 6 Reasons Google Books Failed

The New York Review of Books | Posted 05.28.2011

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Judge Denny Chin’s opinion in rejecting the settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who sued it for infringement of their copyright...

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Google Books Case May Go To Congress

nytimes.com | CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Congress, Digital Bookstore, Scott Turow, Google Books Case, Bookstore, Google Books, Ebooks, Authors Guild, Books News

SAN FRANCISCO — Now that a judge has curtailed Google’s ambitions to create a giant digital bookstore and library, the company is left with few ap...

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Watch Out: Pitfalls Of eBook Buying

PCWorld | Melissa J. Perenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Kindle, Ebooks, Google Books, New York Times Bestsellers List, Nook, Books News

Easy downloads and convenient storage are the chief lures of a virtual library, but ownership has some irritating downsides that require your attentio...

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Google Books App

usatoday.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google Editions, Google Review, Google Book App Review, Ereader, Google Book App, Google Ebook, Ebook, Google Ebook App, Google Books, Books News

Competing directly against Apple's own iBooks application, as well as apps for popular book readers (such as Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook),...

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Google eBooks Takes Cue From Twitter With 'Whale Fail'

The Huffington Post | Sammy Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

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On its newly launched eBook service, Google featured an error page with a picture of a sailor and a whale with text that reads: "Whale Fail. Google Bo...

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Will Google eBook Venture Level The Playing Field?

sfgate.com | Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google Editions, Google, Book Market, Indie Bookstore, Ereader, Google Ebook, Ebook, Digital Books, Bookseller, Ebook Venture, Google Books, Books News

As president of the independent American Booksellers Association, Tucker has been working with Google on its Google Editions initiative for the past t...

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Why a Google-Groupon Deal Makes Sense

Edward Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Youtube, Groupon, Google Books, Mergers and Acquisitions, Nordstrom, Google Groupon, Business News

The internet is abuzz with rumors of Google's bid to buy Groupon, the Chicago-based startup company. Google's multi-billion dollar offer, though pricey, makes a lot of sense for the search giant.

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Embargoed Jimmy Carter Book Appears Briefly On Google Books

Political Bookworm | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Political Books, Embargoed Books, Political Memoirs, Jimmy Carter, President Jimmy Carter, Memoirs, Ereader, Former President Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter Book, Ebooks, Google Books, Books News

Jimmy Carter's "White House Diary," embargoed by its publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux until its release on Monday, had a brief ride on Google books...

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There Are 129,864,880 Books In The World, Says Google

Inside Google Books | Leonid Taycher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Book Count, Google Books Search, Libraries, Books, Google Bookstore, Digital Books, Books in the World, Google Books, Ebooks, Books News

When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: "Just how many books are ou...

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Google Can Go Forward With Digitizing Dutch Library Books, Says EU

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BRUSSELS — The European Commission said Thursday it does not object to Google digitizing 160,000 books in the archives of the National Library o...

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Google Ancient Places: Google Books And Google Earth Combine For Research Resource

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Google-backed research project is to map out the relationship between location and literature, visualising works related to a specific era or place ...

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British Publishers On What They Want From The New Government

The Bookseller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: England, British Publishers, Google Books, British Government, Book Publishing, Authors, Literacy, British Elections, Harpercollins, Books, Penguin, Bloomsbury, Booksellers, Books News

The new government must push further on a range of issues from digital piracy to VAT, regardless of who holds the keys to 10 Downing Street, key fig...

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Better Than iBooks Or Amazon? Google Editions Makes Your eBook Library Accessible From Any Device

ZDNet | Christopher Dawson | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Google Editions, Bestsellers, Ereaders, Google, Ibooks, Ebooks, Ipad, Google Books, Books News

Google Editions has been on my radar for a while now, primarily for its potential applications to educational technology. After all, while the Kindle ...

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Google Editions To Launch In Early Summer: Google To Begin Selling Digital Books

Wall Street Journal | JESSICA E. VASCELLARO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apple, Google Books, Book Publishing, Google Editions, Books, Ebooks, Digital Books, Amazon, Google, Books News

Google Inc. will begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company representative said Tuesday, setting off a three-way battle between the I...

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Google Books: Why Is The Settlement Stalled Six Years After Publishers Reach Agreement?

CNET | Tom Krazit | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Domain, Google, Orphan Books, Book Publishing, Copyright, Digital Books, Out of Print, Ebooks, Google Books, Books News

At this point, Google and the Authors Guild must feel like they are in a James Joyce novel. The Google Books case drags on with no hint of when the s...

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Google To Scan 400,000 Austrian Library Books

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Domain, Google, Book Publishing, Austria, Copyright, Libraries, Google Books, Books News

VIENNA -- Austria's national library said Tuesday it has struck a 30-million-euro deal with US Internet giant Google to digitise 400,000 copyright-fre...

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It's About Search, Stupid

Devereux Chatillon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Books, Google Book Deal, Google Books Deal, Google Books Settlement, Google Books Copyright, Google Book Search, Google Books, Books News

If the Google Books search settlement is approved, Google's insuperable advantage may well prevent all the other possible players, public and private, from helping to create something truly public and accessible to all.

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